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Small round cookies covered with powdered sugar on a peach tile background with a floral kitchen towel.

Lemon Cooler Cookie Recipe (Copycat)

A baked Monte Cristo crepe with the layers of ham, turkey, and melted cheese showing. There is powdered sugar dusted over the crepe with a small bowl of raspberry jam and balsmic vinegar in the background.

Monte Cristo Crepes (Two Ways)

A crepe folded into a pillow shape topped with berry sauce and whipped cream. The crepe is on a blue plate with a fork to the right.

How to Make Crepes, Step by Step

Puff pastry cheese straws on a plate, shot from above.

Puff Pastry Cheese Straws

A close up view into a white ramekin of an individual chicken pot pie. A lot of the puff pastry top has been cut away to reveal creamy brown gravy with carrots, potatoes, green beans, corn, and baby spinach inside along with chunks of chicken.

Individual Chicken Pot Pies with Puff Pastry

Elephant ear shaped palmier cookies embedded with sugar on a black grid cooling rack.

Palmier Recipe (Elephant Ears)

A black cooling rack with five puff pastry apple turnovers on it. They have just been glazed, and glaze is dripping off onto parchment below the rack. The white bowl of glaze with a whisk in it is in the background.

Puff Pastry Spiced Apple Turnovers

A chess pie in a pie pan on a white pedestal with a slice of pie on a blue plate with whipped cream on top.

The Best Chess Pie

A deep-dish quiche on a white cake stand with a slice of quiche on a blue plate in front.

Quiche Recipe

Several piped whipped shortbread cookies on a bright pink surface.

Whipped Shortbread Cookies

Coffee cake on a brown and cream plate with a mug of coffee and a coffee shop in the background.

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Coffee Cake

A sliced cake topped with strawberry cream with a bowl of strawberries in the background.

Very Strawberry Pound Cake (All-Natural Flavor/Color)

A whole layer cake frosted with caramel frosting. The cake is frosted with visible knife marks and "swoops" rather than smooth.

Fluffy Caramel Frosting Recipe

A "poof" of piped whipped cream on a reflective surface with purple and fuschia lights in the background.

The Best Stabilized Whipped Cream

A large square of Italian sausage lasagna on a plate in front of a window at night.

Hot Italian Sausage Lasagna Recipe

A plate of pancakes with butter and blueberries on top. A bottle of maple syrup is in the background.

Pancakes for One: Because Sharing is Sometimes Overrated

A glass of milk with chocolate cookies and a blue napkin shot on a wooden surface with a brown and blue mottled backdrop behind.

Crispy Chocolate Cookies

Three soft chocolate cookies stacked on a silver cooling rack.

Soft Chocolate Cookies

A small plate with a pile of peanut butter fudge on it. There's a jar of honey in the background and peanuts scattered in front of the plate.

Alice’s Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe

A rectangular white plate with 6 sausage ball appetizers on it and a small casserole behind it with more in it.

The Best Sausage Balls

A slate-colored bowl with square cheddar biscuits in it. The bowl is on a blue plate and shot against a backdrop of white bricks.

Flaky Cheese Biscuits Recipe

A blue pottery bowl filled with orange cheese puffs. The bowl is on a cutting board with a cheese puff on it cut in half to reveal a pimento-stuffed green olive inside.

Mom’s Cheese Olive Puffs Recipe

A small cutting board on a blue napkin with pieces of pecan-studded fudge piled on it.

Old-Fashioned Cocoa Fudge

A cut slice of savory turkey pie topped with mashed potatoes on a plate with the cast iron skillet of shepherd's pie in the background.

Thanksgiving Shepherd’s Pie | Leftover Turkey Shepherd’s Pie

A blue plate with a stack of penuche fudge candies on it. The candies are studded with dried cherries and toasted pecans.

Penuche Recipe (Brown Sugar Fudge)

overhead shot of rectangular bar cookies with cinnamon glaze drizzled on top. The tops have blobs of oatmeal dough baked on top and you can see plumped, dried fruit peeking through.

Mom’s Oatmeal Raisin Bars

A jar of cooked pizza sauce on a plate with small bowls of olive oil, red pepper flake, and Italian seasoning.

Homemade Pizza Sauce for Pizza Night

Halloween sable cookies, each with a different Halloween decoration in the center, shot on a black backgroun with a gray plastic, skeletal hand in the foregound.

Halloween Sable Cookies Recipe

Top of a sheetcake decorated with green, purple, and black sprinkles and cute plastic monsters.

Easy Monster Cake Recipe

Some Halloween pimento cheese spread on a cracker next to a molded pimento cheese "brain" on a plate.

Halloween Pimento Cheese Spread

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